THE MOKNrtfa OEEGONIAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 19M?
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JIM HILL SS WILLING
Lumbermen Expect 40-Cent
Rateto Missouri River Points,
HARRIMAN LINES HANG BACK
There Is a Strong Feeling That the
Question Will Be Settled Before
the Meeting of the Washing
ton Legislature.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Nov. 19. Special.)
Jl demand among: the .lumbermen, for leg
islation Imposing a fine upon the railroads
for failure to deliver cars "when ordered
may be presented to the Legislature as
one of the alternative propositions -which
can be traded oft for & 40-cent rate.
Growing out of the serious car shortage
that has prevailed during the Fall Is an
insistent demand among lumber interests
for legislation that -will compel the trans
continental lines to provide sufficient
equipment to handle the lumber and shin
gle traffic The more radical lumbermen
believe the evil can be cured by legisla
tion and the "West Virginia law that im
poses a fee of $1 per car per day when
the railroad falls to deliver a car ordered
by a shipper is being strongly urged.
In justification for the demand for a
demurrage act, the lumbermen hold that
the railroads could provide for the traffic
by building more cars and that they are
charged demurrage If they delay in load
ing or unloading a car sent to their sld-
lDt" Grain Took the Cars.
Railroad traffic and operating men do
not believe it possible for the roads to
comply with the provisions of such an
act as is discussed among lumbermen.
The embarrassment this Fall was caused
primarily by the big wheat movement
Eastward. Up to the time the grain and
flour movement began the car situation
was fairly satisfactory, only one slight
pinch occurring. When the transconti
nental lines were overwhelmed with de
mands for cars for the grain traffic the
millmen suffered. During the month of
October alone It Is estimated the mills
of this state were short 7000 cars In their
requirements and hundreds of orders were
cancelled because of the lack of rolling
stock.
To have supplied the cars needed by the
millmen, gralngrowers, fiourmlll men, fruit
producers and others was an absolute im
possibility this "year. To have required
of the roads that they pay a fine of ?1
per car per day for failure would have
been a severe financial burden upon the
line so taxed. It would be extremely dif
ficult to figure out a time by which the
roads could prepare to comply with such
a demand.
Advantages ot West Virginia.
West Virginia is located conveniently
for supplying cars and the lumbermen
who have not taken up the demurrage
movement with enthusiasm- are citing this
circumstance to show that the bill would
have to fail if sent before the Legislature.
It is argued by conservatives that the
courts would hardly uphold such a law.
About a year ago the Southwestern As
sociation sent a copy of a bill drafted
along similar lines to mill Interests here.
This measure was proposed as a Federal
statute. Northwestern millmen refused
to sanction the bill, holding that the rail
roads could not comply with the law. If
It were impossible, then the fight for such
a bill would fall now.
The legislative committee of the Pacific
Coast Lumber Manufacturers Association
is drafting a number of bills to be sub
mitted to the Legislature. Many of these
measures are to be pushed irrespective
of the attitude of the railroads toward
the demand foi a 40-cent rate, while the
millmen are willing to drop some of the
more radical demands If their terms are
met '
Mead Has Promised Support.
Lumbermen rely to a considerable ex
tent upon the fact that a big majority of
the members in both Houses are pledged
to help them and that Governor-Elect
Mead has agreed to stand with them In
the fight. The mill interests insist that
if It comes to a legislative fight they will
have plenty of backing In forcing terms
from the roads.
As a matter of fact, the lumbermen
making the 40-cent rate fight do not be
lieve the question will last until the Leg
islature meets. There is a strong feeling
among the men who have planned the
campaign that the transcontinental lines
will agree to give them a 40-cent rate into
Missouri River territory.
The most severe trouble is expected from
the Harrlman lines, for conflicting inter
ests affect them more than the Hill sys
tems. Confidence has been expressed for
some time that the Hill roads, if alone in
the matter, would grant the reduction.
It has been pointed out that if the mill
men make a fight against the railroads
the Northern lines would have the op
portunity of retaliating by withdrawing
the 40-cent rate granted to SL Paul.
Lumbermen laugh at this threat. They
declare their traffic amounts to more than
one-third of the entire volume of busi
ness handled by the Northern lines and
that the roads could not afford to kill
the lumber trade as a return to the 50-
cent rate Into St. Paul would do.
Plans Are Yet Undeveloped.
Plans for putting on the screws are
hazy and indefinite among mill interests.
The belief that the fight has been won
by securing so many pledges of co-operation
is so strong that arrangements for
continuing a strong fight are held in abey
ance. The legislative committee refuses
to discuss its plans and Is not hastening
the work of drafting new bills.
Despite campaign talk to the contrary.
the millmen have no faith in a State
Railroad Commission being able to ac
complish anything In securing a. "40-cent
rate for them. There is no question but
that Turner attempted to bait Victor H.
Beckman, secretary of the Lumbermen's
Association, with the offer of a place on
the commission. Beckman turned down
the proposal. He did not want it and
was not particularly interested in the
Railroad Commission movement. Now
that a Railroad Commission Is a reason
able certainty the millmen are no more
confident or the success of their fight in
this" manner than they have been in the
past.
Pressure on King Senators.
Pressure is still being brought to bear
upon the King County hold-over Senators
to bring them into line for the lumber
men's 40-cent rate fight Some of the
hold-overs have weakened and pressure
Is being brought to bear upon the others,
The lumbermen threaten to hold a fur
ther refusal to join against Piles or any
other iung- county senatorial candidate.
A. rather interesting incident of the cam
paign, la relation to the lumbermen's rate
flfht. Is that a certain King County Sen
ator who was Hjost Insistent against the
0trucicl fcs tax agent for one cf the larg
est lumber concerns fn the state. His
client held a consultation with him and
he hastened to sign a pledge. This might
be called direct coercion, but most of
the lumbermen's pledges "were received
through the threat to turn political In
fluence against those who did not sign.
DROWNED IN JOE CREEK.
Miss C. E. Drummond Supposed to
Have Been Thrown From Buggy.
HOQUIAM. Wash., Nov. 20. (Special.)
Miss C. E. Drummond, a popular young
woman, of Iron Springs, a Summer resort
on North Beach, is reported to have been
thrown from a buggy Into Joe Creek and
drowned. The reports, which are meager,
show that Miss Drummond and her
nephew left Iron Springs In a buggy to
visit the Rountree place, at Joe Creek.
Miss Drummond was left in the buggy
while her nephew went to Rountrees, and
returning found no trace of her.
It is supposed the horse became unman
ageable and ran away, and while crossing'
the creek the unfortunate woman was
thrown from the buggy and drowned.
Miss Drummond was a woman of high
standing In this city, and was well edu
cated. Only last week she waded Into the
surf waist-deep to save the life of Mr.
Jaeger, an aged man, who had been car
ried out by a large "wave while crossing
the same creek.
SCORCHED IN FOREST FIRE.
Young Woman Was Fighting Flames
With Her Family.
BROWNING, Mont, Nov. 20. Forest
fires have been raging for some. time. One
in the Boulder Creek region, west of the
Saint Mary's River, came very near de
stroying Mr. Hinkle's ranch buildings. His
whole family were out fighting the fire,
and one of his grown daughters had her
feet severely burned.
The family built a backfire, and this
got beyond their control, when they found
themselves surrounded by flames in the
only avenue of escape, and while doing
this, the young lady met with very pain
ful burns.
Anniversary Services Ended.
OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) Services In commemoration of
the 60th anniversary of the founding1 of
the First Congregational Church of
this city were concluded today. In the
morning Rev. P. S. Knight, of Salem,
who served as pastor of the local
church In 1S55-6, preached the anni
versary sermon. Tonight a praise serv
lve was held and for which the choir
rendered special music.
Wealth Made in Coos County
Industry of Rogers Brothers Rewarded.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Nov. 16.-HSpecIal
Correspondence.) The story that the pio
neers tell is always Interesting. As show
ing the favor and caprice of fortune, the
career of the Rogers' family, in Coos
County and on the Pacific for the past
half-century, affords a fine illustration.
The brilliant financier who has handled
millons as the Winter of 80 years draws
nigh, finds naught left by the shadow,
and is asked to share at the board of
those less gifted. The sober plodders,
content with day's pay, mount steadily
upward, and upon the eve of a well-spent
life are possessed of ample fortune. All
these are the boys of one family. It is the
old story of the tortoise and the hare.
The Rogers brothers also furnish proof
of another Interesting fact The Rogers
dairy farms on South Coos River are
among the best in the county and give
evidence of the profit there Is in well
improved property. The Rogers were the
first to Improve the waterfront along the
river through their ranches and to turn
the caving mud banks into a lawn of liv
ing green. A day spent at their homes
carries with It its own reward. A hundred
fat dairy cows graze in the green mead
ows. The land is drained with tiling, and
pipe lines from springs in the hills fur
nish water for domestic use.
These dairymen were also the first to
put in a plant to pump water from the
river to Irrigate their lands through the
dry Summer months. Tno orchards and
gardens are well kept The fences and
roads and buildings are all In good repair,
and everything has the air of the pros
perous farmer. This Is saying a good
deal In a country where there Is no
fierce struggle for existence, and where
Nature Invites one to a life of leisure.
But the Rogers farms were not always
the park and flower garden they are
today. They were carved out of the wild
erness by slow and patient toll, and on
the hillsides are still left mighty stumps
as mute wltneses of the labor put forth.
Those clearings were begun when those
state builders were in the flush otyouth;
they are finished when those same men
are gray-haired grandfathers. It has
taken near full 50 years to bring those
farms up to the perfection of today. In
their declining years the owners live In
peace, but they began life on those farms
when 13 men with rifles were detailed to
stand guard while one man with a hoe
dug potatoes.
In the life of the Rogers brothers there
Is another fine Illustration. It is the hold
that Oregon takes upon a man. Anson
R. Rogers came West to win his fortune
and then return to his loved New Eng
land hills. Stephen C. Rogers, with for
tune already won, came West for his
health. Each found what he came for
In Oregon, but both remained. Oregon is
not only the place to make a fortune, but
the place to enjoy it
The Rogers' homestead was on a 100
acre farm near Danby, Rutland County,
Vermont There was born Anson Rogers,
April 25, 1829, the second son. There
was being reared in fair circumstances
as things went In those days. a family
of three boys and three girls when the
news of the discovery of gold in Califor
nia electrified the world.
Amos C. Rogers, the eldest son, was
21 when be and his second cousin,- Amos
E. Rogers, organized the company of
100 that came around the Horn In the
ship Regulus, in 1S19. They separated In
San Francisco, heard nothing from 'each
other, and five years later Amoa E. Rog
ers showed up in the city with the first
cargo of Coos Bay coal, from the Flan
agan & Rogers mine, at Newport
About that same time Anson Rogers,
who had not been stampeded by the rush
to the gold fields, had emigrated to Ohio
and was engaged in teaching: school. He
was getting 530 a month for instructing
E0 unruly pupils In the principles of the
three Rs. But that was a long step In
advance from the day he first went to
work out at $4 a month and his board.
A letter came from the brother In Cali
fornia offering him $100 a month to as
sist as a contractor and house-mover.
The pedagogue dropped the ruler and the
rod. dressed himself In his tall silk hat
and started off to engage cabin passage
by the way of the isthmus. But trans
portation rates had risen In a night
steerage from $35 to $150, and the first
cabin was $350. Anything but a steerage
berth was out of the question, and all
the young man's salary for a whole year
went to pay for a short pleasure trip
on the ocean.
All through that long voyage that silk
hat remained a faithful companion. A
man may ride in the steerage and not
lose his self-respect but it Is not so with
a silk hat "The owner of that hat had
used it shamefully. There was no place
on shipboard for the hat except to wear
it to bed. You cannot sleep In a silk tile
for several months and expect to have it
always neat for dress occasions.
The first dress affair was when Anson
landed at Montgomery street In San
Francisco. Amos was there to meet his
younger brother and to guide him and
the hat safely over the city. It was a
triumphal march all the way, but an ex
pensive one. When the newcomer bad
been introduced to a crowd ot the boys
Amos would glance slyly up at the bat
and then h would take the sang Inside,
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GALE STILL HOWIS
No Indications of Cessation at
the Mouth of the Columbia.
ELDER COMES IN FROM SOUTH
Five Vessels Are Waiting to Put to
Sea, and Three or Four Are Beat
ing Around Anxious to Put
In at Astoria.
ASTORIA, Or., Nov. 20. There is no
indication tonight of a cessation of the
great gale which has raged with unusual
fury during the past week. The wind Is
bowling along tonight at a velocity of 70
miles an hour, and indications are that
the storm will become even more severe
before morning. The present storm has
been one of the worst In years, the wind
at this time attaining the unusual ve
locity of SS" miles. Shipping has been al
most completely paralyzed, only" the most
daring of navigators risking their vessels
at sea.
Today the San Francisco liner Geo. W.
Elder reached port after having experi
enced the full fury of the gale on the trip
up the coast The steamship weathered
the storm in an excellent manner, as the
southwest wind was behind her coming
up from San Francisco. This morning
she crossed into the harbor over the bar
that was rendered snow white by the
breakers. Few other vessels ever crossed
in through such a threatening surf, yet
the Elder reached her dock here none the
worse for her trying experience. She
was repeatedly swept by big seas, but no
accident occurred.
Reports from Fort Stevens convey In
formation that no further damage of con
sequence has been done to the jetty.
Teredo-eaten piling, has been carried
away, but all of the completed break
water has thus far withstood the ravages
of the storm.
Five vessels are bar-bound here the
steamers Northland, Despatch and Aber
deen, schooner Halycon and French bark
Pierre Lot!. Three or four vessels have
make everything square. This was in
1S54, just 60 years ago.
But Anson Rogers after he had bought
$17 worth of experience In the silk hat
days never again deviated from the Puri
tanical training of his youth. His Is one of
the rare homes where grace Is still said at
table. He comes of good old Quaker
stock, and recalls his grandfather's thee
and thou. The younger generation in its
levity has a legend of the old man hav
ing once played seven-up, but the truth
of this is to be doubted.
At the end of two years Anson, who had
become a silent partner in the firm, had
saved $2000. In the meantime his brother
Amos had become interested in a store
at Empire. Anson was Induced to try
the Coos Bay country and paid $900 for
the ranch on South Coos River, where he
now lives.
That was back in the days of the
Rogue River Indian War. That Fall
he dug 300 bushels of potatoes from a
clearing on the new ranch, but under the
protection of a strong guard. It was 20
miles from Empire up to the ranch, and
the men would row back and forth to a
day's work in the potato field. Potatoes
were proscribed as army rations. But
the soldiers paid 4 cents a pound for
them, and the Commissary marked them
up as flour.
It was the next August the Summer of
1S37, that the big fire occurred which we
hear so much about A stretch of timber
15 miles wide running up and down the
Coast was burned over. The dead trunks
of many of the burned trees still stand.
It is said that the ashes from the Are
killed all the oysters In the bay and
many of the fish. True it Is there are
no oysters now, and still there Is seven
feet of oyster shells covering .the bot
tom of the bay. Mr. Rogers says -that
it was a magnificent sight to row along
the river at night and behold the burning
forest on all sides. At that time less
than half a dozen families lived on Coos
River, and these took refuge on the pe
ninsula at Empire, whiqh was missed by
the fire.
It was Amos Rogers who had all the
luck of the family, but -who at last lost
all he had. One day at his store In Em
pire a man named Pence was determined
to sell his donation " claim, and no one
would buy. It is now the Endegren
place, and was considered the finest piece
of ground on Coos River. Mr. Rogers
finally offered to take the claim and set
up the drinks for the crowd. To his sur
prise Pence accepted. Amos Rogers in
three or four years sold the place for
$1500. A few years ago It again changed
hands at $12,000. Amos Rogers also ran
a store in Wyman's Ravine, California,
during the bonanza days, and his cash
sales were $500 a day.
Stephen Rogers, six years the junior of
AH3on,,nao gone irom me Vermont home
to Glenn's Falls, N. T., where he en
gaged In brlckmaklng. . His health failed,
and in 1S71 he came Westwlth $15,000 and
settled on Coos River with his family.
He runs the steamer on pouth Coos Riv
er, milks 60 cows, owns sheep and goats,
and has 700 acres of land, much of It
bottom land worth $200 an acre. His
sons, Herbert and Frank, are settled
round him on the farm with families of
tneir own. tie also owns much town
property in Marshfield.
Anson Rogers owns 400 acr?s, taking in
a tract of fine bottom land. The Central
Hotel and Rogers block In Marshfield also
are owned by him. The two brothers
have been about equally fortunate.
They began back in the days when butter
was worth 50 cents a pound and cheese 15
cents. They made their own butter and
cneese, out now send an their milk to
the creamery.
Two great floods have occurred on the
Coos River In 50 years, 1S61 and 1SS1, 20
years apart, -tresnets tney call them.
At the Anson Rogers place In the flood
of 1SS1 the horses had to be put in the
haymow, the water came Into the house
and high up on the window, where a
mark still keeps the record. The piano
had to be lifted onto benches, a .wharf
log 105 feet long and four feet through
was lifted over the piling and deposited
on the land, and over the meadow was
deposited two or three feet of silt de
stroying an ine grass. a ience was
burled nearly to the top and the cedar
posts still stand. The river started to
cut a new channel and leave the house on
an Island. The wharf log could not be
got back and had to be sawed up for
nrewood. The house had to be raised
two feet, to get It up level with its new
surroundings. These freshets came in
January. It Is thus the rich bottom
lands of Coos River Valley have been
made.
The boys did not forget their parents.
nor their sisters. The father and mother
died and were buried here. One sister.
Mrs. Carpenter, lives on South Coos
River, and another, Mrs. Yoakum, lives
In Marshfield. Mrs. Parker, the-only one
or the Tamily left in the East bas a fine
noma at Granville. New Tork.
. In 1869 Anson Rogers went back to
New York and married Mirs Lydia Dll
lingham. One of their daughters is Mrs.
Bowman, wife of the manager of the
Brownsville Woolen Mills store on Stark
street Portland, and the other Is Mrs.
Eldredge, wife of the Government engi
neer who has chance of the harbor work
at Cleveland. Anson Rogers; Jr.. Is un-
r""' "A nwi fM home olace.
been in the offing for two days. Because
of the thick weather. It Is Impossible
for. the observer at North Head to see any
vessels that mar show up, and the fleet
outside may be larger than has been re
ported.
Damage from the storm has thus far
been confined to signboards In the city,
and no marine mishaps have been re
ported. BOY HUNTER BADLY HURT.
Beats Dog With- Rifle, When Bullet
Enters His Abdomen.
OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 20. Special.)
While hunting with a companion on the
West Side this afternoon, Martin, the 13-year-old
Bon of Philip R003, of this city,
wa3 shot and perhaps fatally wounded by
the discharge of a 22-calIber rifle. Young
Roos became provoked at the bird dog
with which he was hunting, because the
animal persisted in getting beyond his
control.
With the rifle in his right hand, Roos
struck at the dog, with the result that
the trigger was tripped, and the bullet
after plowing through the fleshy part of
his right hand, entered his abdomen, rang
ing upwards, and lodged in the liver. The
injury is -considered serious, and the in
jured lad was taken to a Portland hos
pital. Martin Roos was brought to St Vin
cent's Hospital yesterday afternoon by
Dr. H A. Sommers, of Oregon City, who
immediately performed the operation
necessary for the saving of young Roos
life. An examination showed that aside
from the wound in the hand the bullet
had plowed through the abdomen and In
testines, leaving nine punctures.
At an early hour this morning, while
not wholly out of the Influence ot the
anesthetic, Roos was resting easily, and
unless "some complication sets in will re
cover. HOLD-UP MAN HELD UP.
Officer in Plain Clothes Spoils Long
shoreman's Little Game.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. Whilo
Policeman John Fischer was strolling
on Webster street tonight with his
little son he came upon a hold-up, one
man being engaged in relieving an
other of valuables, at the muzzle of a
revolver. Fischer, who was in plain
clothes, drew his pistol and took part
in the proceedings.
A duel followed, the patrolman and
the robber emptying their weapons.
The robber then took to his heels, but
was captured. He was wounded In one
arm. He gave the name of George
Miller. His picture is in the rogue's
gallery over the name of August Ha
berstadt " The man whom he held up was John
Mullaney, a steamship man.
GAS TUBE WAS LEAKY.
San Francisco Man and Wife Nearly
Smothered to Death.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. Court
land S. Benedict president of the Has
tings Clothing Company, and his wife
were nearly asphyxiated last night by
illuminating gas. Mr. Benedict used a
gas reading lamp last night in his bedroom-
and turned off the key at the
lamp. The tubing leaked and when
Mr. and Mrs. Benedict were discovered
this morning they were unconscious.
Several doctors and nurses have
been laboring over them all day and
tonight there is some prospects of their
recovery.
MINNIE HEALEY SHUT DOWN.
Judge Clancy's Order Restrains
Heinze From Working Property.
BUTTE, Mont, Nov. 20. Judge Clancy
at 4 o'clock this morning issued a re
straining order preventing F. A. Heinze
from working the Minnie Healey mine.
here. The appeal irora a aecision oi juage
Clancy awarding the mine to Heinze is
now pending in the Supreme Court ot
Montana. By the closing .down of the
Minnie Healey, 1000 men will bo affected.
The present action Is based on the alle
gation that the Minnie Healey people are
taMng ore from adjoining property be
longing to the Amalgamated Copper Com
pany. '
No Inquest Over Drowned Infant.
SALEM, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.)
Sheriff Culver is not content to allow
the mystery connected with the finding
of the body of a 3-months-oId Infant
In a small lake north of this city, yes
terday morning, to rest and will en
deavor to find the parents of the dqad
child, and the particulars incident to
Its drownlncr.
There Is no doubt of its, being
thrown Into the lake, presumably by
some hopplckers. and Sheriff Culver
will investigate the matter fully.
The child was burled by Coroner
Clough near where It was found yes
terday afternoon, who decided an in
quest unnecessary.
Electric Lights for Goldendale.
GOLDENDALE. Wash., Nov. 20. (Spe
cial.) The City Council of Goldendale has
granted an electric light franchise to R.
T. Robinson for a term, of 20 years, and
entered into contract to take 16 lights for
street lighting during the .next two years.
Mr. Robinson Is to begin work on the new
plant by the first of the month, and de
posited $500 with the City Treasurer as a
forfeit unless the system Is completed
within four months.
Unruly. Boy Sent to Reform School
ALBANY, Or., Nov. 20. (Special.)
Winfleld McDaniel, the 14-year-old son
of J. D. McDaniel, living near this city,
was committed to the State Reform
School by County Judge Stewart yester
day. He was unruly at home -and ran
away two weeks ago. Yesterday he was
caught while in company with three ho
boes near Albany. He said he had been
as far north as Seattle.
New Pastor at Forest Grove.
FOREST GROVE, Or., Nov. 20. (Spe
clal.) Rev. Herbert Wi Boyd, 'who for
seven years nas oeen pastor or tne con
gregational Church at Ashby, Mass, has
accepted a call to the Congregational
Church at this place. Mr. Boyd has had
14 years active ministerial work in the
Bast and Is a graduate of Andovec Theo
logical Seminary- He will begin his work
here .Decern Der u.
, Klamath Rustlers Sentenced.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or." Nov. 20. (Spe
clal.) Sheriff Obenchaln leaves In the
morning for Salem, and will have in
charge Walter Lerwell and J. S. Stevens,
sentenced .yesterday by Judge Benson to
eight and ten years, respectively. In the
penitentiary, iierweii and Stevens are
from Douglas County and were found
guilty at this term of Circuit Court of
cattlestealing.
Jury Gave More Damages.
OREGON CITY. Or.. Nov. 20. (Special.)
In the suit of Fred Heucke against Mr.
Stradley for damages resulting from the
establishing of a private roadway, the
jury last night returned a verdict in fa
vor of the plaintiff for $120. The Cpunty
Board of Road viewers had awarded
.Stradley $25 damages. He claimed $S0O,
and appealed to the circuit Court
Official Count in North Yakima.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash.. Nov. 20. Spe
cial.) The official vote in Yakima County
shows for electors: Republican 34S4. Dem
ocrat 536, Socialist-Labor 36, Socialist 360.
Prohibition 133, People's 13. For Governor
the results were: Mead 2539. Turner 1325,
McCorralck (Soc-Lab.) 22, Burgess (Soc)
3SS, Sherwood (Pro.) 119.
Hew to Get RIfi of Stumps.
Scientific American.
In the Autumn. bore a hole one or
two Inches in diameter, according to
the'glrth of the stump, vertically In the
center of the latter, and about 18 Inches
deep. Put into It one or two ounces of
saltpeter; fill the hole with water and
plug up close. In the ensuing Spring
take out plug and pour in about one
half gallon of kerosene oil and ignite
it The stump will smoulder away to
the very extremities of the roots,
leaving nothing but ashes.
MEALTIME "UNDER FIRE.
Scene on Russian Fighting Line
When Bread Wagons Came.
London Evening Standard.
A Russian correspondent with General
OrlofTs force at the battle of Lloa Yang
gives a picturesque account of the .feed
ing of the soldiers during battle.
"Hunger was written on every man's
face, a starving, wolfish hunger, which in
tensified the ferocious expressions of the
dirty, tired and angry men.
"At 2 o'clock a deafening roar rang all
along the trenches. I turned my glasses
to look for charging Japs, but my ear soon
distinguished not the martial "Ura!" but
a triumphant shout of 'Khlebi' (bread)
Khleb! Khleb!' I don't think if the Commander-in-Chief
had ridden up on his
white horse he would have got such a re
ception. "The commissariat men, with wagons
and baskets, came forward bravely
through the bursting Japanese shells.
'Bread! Bread!' roared the soldiers. And
every one of them looked happy and
amused as children with Christmas toys.
All snatched eagerly, and I can never for
get the horrible laugh and scramble which
began when a shell knocked, a wagon to
bits, killing the driver and strewing the
black hunks all over the ground. The sol
diers, conscious of nothing but hunger,
jumped from their positions and struggled,
buffeted and butted one another.
"The dead man In the middle of the
bread was not even looked at Then an
other shell fell. It did not explode. But
nobody .'save the 'soldier whose foot it
had smashed to pulp paid the slightest at
tention, and not until every man had se
cured his dinner was the shell removed."
Growth of the Library of Congress.
The new Llbary of Congress, Wash
ington. D. C, was completed only a
few years ago. At the time the build
ing was planned It was designed to
make ample provision for the growth
of the institution for more than a cen
tury. The report of the superintend
ent, Bernard R. Green, for 1903, shows,
however, that already every part of
the building, from cellar to roof, with
the exception of a couple of attic
rooms, is in full use. He declares that
the great progress of the Institution
has by far exceeded the estimate
made at the time the library was
planned. "It is even now "evident" he
says, "that the original estimate that
something like. a century's growth had
been provided for, based, on the condi
tions and data of the day, must be dis
counted 70. or 80 per cent"
The electric lighting aparatus is al
ready overtaxed, though built to fur
nish light for two-thirds of the library.
More power than the plantnow can
produce is necessary. New machines
must soon be added to increase Its ca
pacity. The number of persons that visited
the library In 1303 and 1S03. was 831.201. Of
these 356,411 visited it in the evenings.
This makes a daily average for the
CS3 days the library was open of 22SS
The library is closed to the public only
on Christmas and the Fourth of July.
The smallest number of visitors in any
day from December 1, 1902, to Decem
ber 1, 1903, wa3 509, In July. The
greatest number was 6873, in Feb
ruary. The expenditures of the library dur
ing the year amounted to $5$8,366.49.
Of this sum $305,000 was used "for sala
ries, $79,000 for new books. $75,000 for
care and maintenance, $45,000 for fur
niture and $40,000 for fuel and lights.
Though the, library has been com
pleted only a few years, the use of It
has been so great that new furniture
Is already needed in the law depart
ment If the present great production
of books keeps on,and if the library
shall be able to complete its collec
tions, it Is evident "that extensions
must soon be made to provide for the
unexpected growth. Success.
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